'Polarizing' label is a ploy, Clinton's husband says

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Republicans' claims that Hillary Clinton is "polarizing" are part of a strategy to block independent voters from supporting her, former president Bill Clinton said in Iowa on Saturday.

"You become polarizing not because of what you do but because of what people say about you. That's all that's going on here. She can win this race," Clinton said while on the campaign trail in West Des Moines and Boone.

"Now, when people say how calculating she is and how she had a decades-long strategy to be president, I thought, 'If that's true, then she ought to get 100 percent of the votes.' " he told an audience in Boone. "Because she's the only person in history to ever figure it out, that the best way to become the first woman president is ... not to run for office, but to go to a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks, in a state that had never produced a president, and marry a guy who had lost his only election for public office, who was making $26,000 a year and was $42,000 in debt.'

If she was smart enough to figure that out, he said, she deserves to be president.

The former president drew about 460 people in Boone and about 600 in West Des Moines.

"I must say you're like an early Christmas present for me; there's so many here, and you're in such good humor, and it's so early in the morning," he told the West Des Moines crowd.

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Marie James, 54, a supporter of Barack Obama, was at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in West Des Moines. She sat just below a red, white and blue "Ready for change! Ready to lead!" banner.

Her husband, Leo James, 65, a serious Hillary Clinton fan, persuaded her to attend. "He's trying to convert me," she said. "We've been together 30 years and we've never, ever been split like we are on this."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/NEWS/712230342/-1/LIFE04

[snowbear]

1. Shyeet Dawg,,,, Americans have been using that term for YEARS!!

A little late now to tell people that it bothers you....

[rodeodance]

2. perhaps a bit late. but Bill is telling them that the media has grabbed them

on this one --------and they believed and it has become part of their consciousness. hook line and sinker--they believe!!

[BlueManDude]

3. They have misused Bill Clinton during this campaign.

They panicked and put him out there too much. He's lost his ability to be heard over the din. He's just another flack pushing his candidate, another voice in the circus.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. I agree with President Clinton........

the "divisive" and "polarizing" labels put on Senator Clinton have become a meme for the MSM.

Everybody says that Senator Clinton is "divisive" and "polarizing" but no one can site instances in which she has done anything other than mobilize that "vast, right-wing conspiracy", a conspiracy that exposed itself during the 2000 SElection.

[patricia92243]

5. Agreed!!!

[Perry Logan]

6. Me too.

[jefferson_dem]

7. Can the Big Dog manage to say anything this campaign that isn't either hyperbole...

a low-brow smear, or an outright lie?

He was supposed to be an asset. He's morphed into a full-blown bozo.

[Forkboy]

8. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

[mtnsnake]

9. Bill is at his best when he's explaining what's going on. The man is so intelligent

I can just picture him, smiling the entire time he was talking about it. :thumbsup: